What changes in breast sensitivity have you experienced along the way?

Here is my situation:  39, pre-everything, not overweight but with natural A-cups. (I was called "Mr. D Cup" in high school.)   (I suspect some intersex condition but the docs haven't found anything definite yet. My therapist says I could easily pass for an FTM.  )

My breasts are the most erogenous zone in my body.  The skin is very sensitive all over, especially on the underside.  The only exception is the aureola, which seems to have no sensation at all.  My nipples on the other hand are extremely sensitive and send me skyrocketing. They are much more sensitive than that thing between my legs.   When I walk at the right speed my twins bounce in a way that is sometimes pleasurable and sometimes really annoying.

Indeed, one of the many reasons I desire to transition (in addition to feeling like I really am a girl inside) is that since I love my small breasts, I will like bigger ones even more.

What happens to breast sensitivity along the transition path? 

I have read that on HRT there are growing pains and the breasts become sore.  Temporary growing pains would be fine with me.   But what I actually fear is a loss of the erotic sensitivity.  My wife has large breasts and she says that they are not erotic and she does not like to have them touched. 

I know that one should not embark upon transition in the hopes of improving one's sex life. Indeed, one needs to be willing  to lose it all due to loss of partner and bad surgical outcomes.  But it would be really depressing if I lost the sensations of my most feminine (for now) parts.

What has been your experience with changes in breast sensitivity along the transition path?  How does it change with HRT?  What impact does SRS have?  And what about the impact of breast augmentation?

For me, my boobs are probably the less sensitive spot on my body.  Of course that was pre-HRT and without a partner to play with them.  I have always had a small A cup my entire life.  When I started HRT, they would ache constantly.  To bump them was sheer agony.  Then about 6 months in NOTHING.  No pain, no ache, nada.

But they kept creeping up in size.  I am a good B cup now and are definitely make their present known.  Now if I only had a partner to test the sensitivity.    Which might just be in the works.  And maybe I will get even luckier and they will get at least a C or better, now that I have had my Orchie.

Trust me, they will change.  And for the better.


Janet

I have questioN!! me me me!! -*raises hand**

My question : what if you are pre everything and you have fat as breast... if you start on HRT will it grow from that point?

I don't know, RoseBlossom.  I've always been somewhere between lean and downright skinny.

My breasts began aching a month or two after starting HRT.  For a while, even driving over railroad tracks would hurt.  Now (9 months), they are tender but usually don't hurt and jiggling isn't painful.  Since the beginning, though, squeezing my breasts has been and continues to be painful.  At first I had to be very careful just stepping into the shower not to let the stream hit them directly.  Now they don't hurt quite so easily but I still have to be very gentle washing them.

The nipples - always sensitive - seem even more sensitive, but the breasts themselves are now sensitive too.  Playing with them and stroking them is very pleasurable.  (I don't have a partner.  There's only one person in the room while this is going on.  )

I figure that my breasts will probably stop aching when they stop growing, or vice versa.

But each of us reacts a bit differently, depending on the receptors in our tissue so your results may well be different.

- Kate

I get a dull ache that signifies growth and when they are growing they definitely hurt if you poke them but otherwise I haven't noticed that much change.   It does worry me slightly when  I read that other girls boobs are really painful as that has not been my experience.   It makes me wonder if my Dr has got the dosage right.

I can understand how you feel, Pippa.  I haven't had the pain for several months now.  But I will put something on and it is suddenly tighter across the bustline, I have to double check that is is indeed tighter.    Which is a OMG moment. 

Pre HRT my breasts weren't even an A cup, and had little or no sensation (excepting the nipples).  I had the ache and soreness from about three weeks on.  Stopped probably within six months.  They continue to get bigger, but mostly just from a fullness perspective.  What I have noticed is that the skin is *much* more sensitive, and my nipples only moderately more so. 

I don't think that HRT would have a negative impact on the sensation that you currently get, so probably no worries there.  I've also heard that post-SRS it's not uncommon to pick up another cup size or so, but I can't speak from experience.  Breast augmentation, if you need it, can cause loss of sensation, but that's a typical risk for that surgery and is in no way unique to trans women. 

Lastly, without augmentation, you can expect to have breasts that are a little smaller than those of your close female relatives (if you're intersex, that might be different).  I believe most trans women consider themselves (un)lucky to end up with breasts bigger than a C-- it's just not common. 

Quote from: jayjay on January 26, 2010, 02:55:51 PM
What changes in breast sensitivity have you experienced along the way?

Here is my situation:  39, pre-everything, not overweight but with natural A-cups. My breasts are the most erogenous zone in my body.  The skin is very sensitive all over, especially on the underside. 

What happens to breast sensitivity along the transition path? 

I have read that on HRT there are growing pains and the breasts become sore.  Temporary growing pains would be fine with me.   

What has been your experience with changes in breast sensitivity along the transition path?  How does it change with HRT?  What impact does SRS have?  And what about the impact of breast augmentation?

If they are sensitive now to stimulation, just wait .  What you laid out was similar to me.  During HRT growth spurts they do get sore and painful but the intensity varies.  When there isn't soreness, the sensitivity is amazing.

Can't comment on SRS or BA.

Quote from: RoseBlossom on January 26, 2010, 04:41:29 PM
I have questioN!! me me me!! -*raises hand**

My question : what if you are pre everything and you have fat as breast... if you start on HRT will it grow from that point?

There needs to be glandular development before breasts actually develop.  So if you don't have that already you'll likely stay with your moobs for a while until the glandular stuff starts to happen.  But after that your moobs will become bewbs and you'll be adding to that (assuming they grow beyond that starting point - not everyone does).

Quote from: Pippa on January 28, 2010, 11:31:13 AM
I get a dull ache that signifies growth and when they are growing they definitely hurt if you poke them but otherwise I haven't noticed that much change.   It does worry me slightly when  I read that other girls boobs are really painful as that has not been my experience.   It makes me wonder if my Dr has got the dosage right.

How long are you on HRT? -- if less than 18 months, I wouldn't worry if I were you.  It takes a while for the glandular stuff to happen for some people, you won't see any real tissue growth until that's done.

At 1 month + 4 days of HRT, extreme nipple area sensitivity, and small glandular development. It hurts if I even put the slightest pressure on the breast area.

I had almost all muscle and no fat in the area prior to HRT. I used to be able to flex the pectoral muscle, and hit myself with my fist to see how much muscle I had (it never hurt, and I had no sensitivity at all prior to HRT). I tried that 2 weeks ago ... I will never try that ever again, I thought to myself as I writhed in pain for a short while. At the start of HRT, I stopped working out, coupled with eating more food (freshman diet) to help lose musculature and gain fat since I normally find it certifiably impossible to gain weight.

JayJay, I don't think loss of sensitivity will happen. It may even be that your breasts would be a bit too(?) sensitive at times.

After years on estrogen, I still find mine are excitable and erogenous all the time. It might be a higher pain threshold for me - but I don't find the sensations all that painful at all.

I've cut back to 1/2 my daily regime for "E" - and can feel when I need a little boost with another small upgrade in dosage by the lack of internal breast sensitivity.

Typically I stay at about the 3/4-normal dose and things are just fine - but the tenderness never goes totally away.

There are times when I need to stop HRT for a couple of months - right before my chemo-therapy f'rinstance - and during the first week OFF the meds I get really firm breasts and find I cannot sleep on my stomach at all. "Perky" is not even close to what happens!

Each time the feeling lasts about eight days and then starts to disappear but by then I am ready to re-start the E again and in another five or six days all is back to "normal" for me. The effects of estrogen are kinda residual. lasting about a week and then tapering off the nothing with the return-to-feelings taking about the same amount of time.

At about ten months HRT I experienced a bad case of "nerps" for the first time this morning.  It was 15 degrees and very foggy.  Even under all my layers, my nipples tightened up painfully.  I guess I just need more layers on my morning walks.

- Kate

After 3 years there is some breast sensitivity, but most of it occurred after one of my partners actually...well you know.

*ahem* Anyway, after that initial stimulation, further stimulation increased sensitivity. Though i'm jealous of you girls with breasts before transition. I only got my mosquito A-cups, barely at that. >.>

I can't remember much of breast sensitivity actually. I am 32C but a small C, mom is 36B. Still growing I believe.

Don't forget that the letter is how much the breast projects out of the body, the larger the chest is the harder it is to project.

To answer the question, I have been on hormones for about 10 months.   I know it takes years for breasts to develop fully and I am relatively patient but I do get frustrated as to the speed of development.   I know when growth is happening, I just want more of it.